I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.

For me, I've wrestled since I was 12 years old, so I've never had time off or been injured.

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

Every business is a service business. Does your service put a smile on the customer's face?

There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you.

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

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